Monday, September 22, 2008

Duodecade

Twelve years ago, today, we married. Twelve years ago today, we were only two, but we held our future in our hearts and we knew that it was bigger, so much bigger, than we two.

Twelve years later, we hold our future in our arms; we clutch our two to our chests and marvel at how we have grown, how our hearts have grown, how our life has grown, how it continues to grow.

Our future is so much bigger, so much bigger than we can know.

(This is the only photo in existence of the four of us together. Which, I know, is shameful. We need, I think, to get our asses to Sears Portrait Studio. Otherwise we may need to resort to this again.)

Happy Anniversary. Oh, I hear you on the family photo. I have very few pictures of me with M, and no family ones other than a very bad hair Christmas morning one. We needed one for daycare too, so yesterday I figured out how the timer on the digital camera works and we took a few. We picked the one where we were all looking at the camera.

Happy Anniversary!! The only pic I have of all 4 of us is the one I bought in a moment of weakness at the aquarium where they catch you as you come out and say stand here and snap it. It was actually pretty good even though neither one of the babies were looking at the camera. And the mullet family photo killed me. OMG it was hilarious. Go get yourselves to Sears soon. I love that place. The photo woman there is awesome with my little dudes.

As I like to say to my husband, if I got hit by a bus today, THEY WOULDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT I LOOKED LIKE because I take every photo. And I've had the same freak out with the daycare-requested family photo. We just didn't have one, until we had to get my parents to take one of us for that reason.

Happy happy dozen anniversary!That is a ridiculously wonderful photo of the four of you - all drunkenly happy looking on what I assume is the first day of Jasper's life. Makes up for hundreds of missing ones.By the way, strangers in the park are usually very nice at snapping a group pic - ditto any nosey, "aren't they cute" person on the sidewalk or in the museum. NOT that I've ever had to resort to that......

Congratulations! A man who supports his wife in being as smart and as insightful as you are every day in such a public forum is a confident one who is a great partner. MAny other men could learn a lot from him....

I was there that day, it was a beautiful wedding, a beautiful day, you both were beautiful in your love for each other. Congratulations for creating an enviroment for your love, that resulted in such a wonderful family.

There is only one photo in the whole of the existence of the universe that has my parents and all five of us kids. It's about ten years old, and we all look terrible. As far as I know, it's the only one that's ever even been TAKEN, which boggles my mind because my parents are happily married, we siblings are all close, and we're all together all the time.

Happy Anniversary too! My husband and I were married 7 years ago today (11 days after Sept 11th!!). I love reading your blog because it reminds me so much of my family. We have a 3 year old little girl and a 4 mo old son. I found you while I was also going through bloody boobie hell and it was nice to know someone else was too. Thanks for sharing with all of us. BTW, I haven't gotten around to doing a picture of all four of us at all yet!! So don't feel bad. =)

My children are the same age as yours! We have the same one and only family photo except hubby's eyes are closed, two year old is in a full back arch, baby is screaming and I am grimacing a post- C-section kinda grimace. Despite all that, it is still in a frame....an ugly/beautiful moment frozen in time...Happy Anniversary!